Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey: Unfilled orders: Current (increase vs decrease; diffusion index; percentage points; seasonally adjusted) - United States - Kansas City Fed - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Kansas City Fed Manufacturing Survey
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to recent survey data about manufacturing firms in the Tenth Federal Reserve District, the seasonally adjusted diffusion index for unfilled orders stood at 13.0 (share of CEOs seeing a recent increase minus share reporting a decrease) in September 2026, versus 4.0 in August 2026.
Sample. The monthly series displayed in the plot has 303 records. The span of time covered by the series extends from July 2001 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: the diffusion index had a mean of -2.9; it recorded a maximum of 43.0 in July 2021; it reached a minimum of -51.0 in April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Percentage points |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-31 | 2.00000 |
| 2026-08-31 | 4.00000 |
| 2026-09-30 | 13.0000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Diffusion index for the question: Did unfilled orders increase or decrease in the past month? |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Business survey response |
| Data type | Coincident indicator of the business cycle |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Diffusion index (share of respondents reporting an increase minus share reporting a decrease) |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Percentage points |
| Source | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City |
| Source type | Central bank |
| Data licence | Reproduction allowed subject to conditions |
| Other information | FS correspondence: Unfilled orders |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LM01 |
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